Drakkar Press
20 Moorside Road,
Brookhouse, Lancaster, England, LA2 9PJ
johnselfdrakkar@gmail.com
Drakkar Press was set up in 2005 as a means of publishing my miscellaneous
scribblings. It exists only in the
imagination of the major bookshops and distributors. They insist that a book be ‘published’ by
such an entity before the book itself can be deemed to exist.
At first, books were published in the conventional sense, that is, they were
printed and sold through distributors and bookshops.
• Whoever Said Computers
Would Be Intelligent? (2005) is a 280-page review of the subject of
artificial intelligence, woven from over 500 quotations, both pertinent and
impertinent.
• The Land of the Lune
(first edition, 2008) is a 260-page guide (including over 200 photographs) to
the region within the Lune watershed.
Later, since the scribblings were for amusement (my own and
any readers) and not for profit and certainly not for all the hassle of dealing
with distributors and bookshops, both the above books were made freely
available on the web.
• The on-line
Whoever Said Computers Would Be Intelligent?
is virtually the same as the printed version.
• The on-line
The Land
of the Lune (second edition, 2010) is a revised and expanded version of the
first edition.
Subsequently, the following documents have been placed on-line:
• Fifty Weeks
Running: Ruminations of a Rusty Runner (2011) is a sort of on-line diary
reflecting on running around
the region and elsewhere for thirty years, on and off.
• Rainy Day Rambles in the Lake
District (2015) is a set of ‘sketches’ about the Lake District, revised as
Ramblings, see below.
• The
Wildlife of the Lune Region (2013 - 2016) describes a series of
explorations of the wildlife of the region within the Lune catchment.
• Computational
Mathetics: Towards a Science of Learning Systems Design (1995) was placed
on-line in 2016, to celebrate its 21st birthday.
• Visitors to an Australian Garden (2017)
by Dagmar Parer, a friend who sadly died in 2014. This document describes the wildlife that visited her garden
in Wallaroo, near Canberra.
• Saunterings:
Walking in North-West England (2018 - ), a set of reflections based upon
walks about North-West England.
• Ramblings (2024 - ) is
a revised version of Rainy Day Rambles in the Lake
District (2015), mentioned above.